Hey it's Dan here and in this video I'm going to share three ENFP struggles and
three perhaps surprising opportunities that actually come from these struggles
some of us have with our personality type now if you're new here my name is
Dan this is dreams around the world and my mission here is to help you become
the best version of yourself all well creating the most awesome life possible
for you and those you love so if you're not yet a subscriber do consider hitting
that subscribe button know us enfps we're a bit of an extreme
personality we have some really cool strengths and some awesome things we're
capable of doing that very few other people can and we have some weaknesses
that can sometimes make life especially when we're trying to conform to regular
old society a little bit more of a struggle and I want to go through three
of those struggles here the first and this comes up for all of us is an insane
need for novelty for variety we get bored really quickly now sometimes this
can pose quite a challenge just last night on my ENFP unleashed coaching call
with my students there we were talking about this how for some of us we almost
think we need to be traveling all the time we need a ton of that variety and
it comes down to how can you compromise in your life how can you form a
partnership with someone else that allows you to both be happy but not be
compromising your need for variety how can you stay at one job at one thing and
not get bored because as we all know if you bounce around every three months
when you get bored of a person or a job probably not going to leave to the
healthiest life in the long run now there is an opportunity here as well
though this need for variety pushes us to have an interesting life you know
that as an ENFP if you really accept yourself and go along with at least a
good part of your personality you're never gonna have a boring life you're
never gonna settle it you're never going to stop growing this is a really good
thing I don't know if any of you have seen the show it's called killing Eve I
heard it was a big deal and I just started watching it yesterday and in the
first couple episodes every place it's about an assassin by the way in Europe
this female assassin who goes around everywhere every single place she went
to kill someone I had been there not to kill someone but on some kind of trip I
even recognized most of the streets most of the places she'd been you know the
Harris Bulgaria Berlin and that felt pretty cool like as a Canadian guy who'd
never been to Europe until I was like 28 it was pretty cool to be sitting
watching the show mean like I've been to all these places that's awesome
a big part of that is this ENFP need for novelty right that's what has pushed me
to become location independent to live around the world to have all these trips
and at the end of it I have no regrets about that I'm very happy with the life
that this need for novelty has helped me create so the challenge we have is
meeting this need for novelty the opportunity this gives us is to have an
incredible life of personal growth and memories and experiences that most other
people don't have now I do have other videos on how to meet this need in a
healthy way and I'll be making more videos in the future so of course
subscribe if you haven't because this topic alone can fill an entire playlist
of ENFP videos about how to meet our need for novelty in a really healthy way
the second struggle some of us have is that we are the one personality type
that is extroverted and introverted we need time with people if we are alone
all day for multiple days we start to go crazy but we also need some time alone
and there's different explanations for this it might be that we're always the
life of the party so we need some time to recharge afterwards but ultimately we
need to hang with people and alone and that can cause some challenges sometimes
of finding that right balance of making a schedule and maybe a business or a
lifestyle you create for yourself where you're with people and getting that need
for human connection met really well but also have enough time alone where you
don't get burnt out and you don't feel like you're stretched too thin so that's
a challenge that's a challenge that I personally deal with a lot trying to
figure out my weeks you know as an entrepreneur who has basically complete
control of his schedule I'm constantly trying to figure out that right balance
how many days a week to go out with friends how much time to spend alone how
to schedule my days and times with clients versus filming alone and all
that sort of thing so it's definitely a challenge and if you've experienced that
you're not alone there's also an opportunity there the opportunity is
self-awareness that because we've been gifted this
personality that has a lot of variety on top of our need for variety we have a
lot of variety in what we need out of life in terms of extraversion and
introversion because of that we have an opportunity to really get to know
ourselves and to think a little bit more about proactively planning our lives
about being intentional and yes this does create a struggle initially but it
pushes us to learn more about ourselves and most people learn about themselves
and it pushes us to be intentional with how we plan our weeks and I'm gonna do a
lot more videos on this concept of being intentional and of planning ahead but
ultimately if you're being intentional with how you set up your life you're
going to get better results across the board and this challenge we have is a
great excuse to push ourselves to be more intentional with their planning and
benefit from those results and number three now I know you've never had this
problem mister missus ENFP and I've never had this problem but I've heard
occasionally that us ENFP suffer from having one too many ideas it happens
apparently we can be creative apparently we like to think big picture and think
of all the different opportunities we have now this can be a struggle I've
heard dozens of times in the comments from enfps saying I want to do something
I want to work for myself but there's too many options I think of something
new every day there's so much I want to do I want to write a book I want to
start a band I want to make a movie I get it trust me you're not alone if that
is you we have an ability to think into the future to brainstorm to be creative
and also combined with that we want to do everything we want to experience life
maybe that goes back to our need for novelty we want to have all these
different experiences and that can create a challenge because what often
happens with enfps is we want to do everything and guess what we do nothing
we think about everything we want to do 20 different times in a day 20 different
things and we never actually take action now I have a ton of videos on how to
deal with this and how to actually stick to one thing and I'll link to those at
the end of the video but that's ultimately our challenge it's too many
things that we want to do there's also an amazing
opportunity here to be a prolific creator if you master yourself and the
ability to actually stay focused and get things done enfps have the ability to be
film directors comedians actors writers entrepreneurs all at the same time we
have a ton of potential to do a lot of different things I don't claim to be
prolific in what I've done by any means but in a period of two or three years I
created half a dozen training courses wrote a series of books wrote multiple
books started a coaching practice I got a ton done when I was focused and
intentional and took the right approach to tackling all these many things I
wanted to do we have this ability in ourselves to create a ton of things
which to me is much better than being someone who's like well there's one book
I'm gonna write in my whole life and then I'm gonna retire because that's all
I have in me right I'd much rather be the person who wants to do a million
different things is sooo mean we're able to actually buckle down focus and do one
thing at a time if we do that at the end of our lives we have the ability to look
back and say wow that was prolific we had a massive impact on the world and
that's my hope for you that's my hope for myself and that's my hope that maybe
this video will inspire you to check out those other videos learn to overcome
some of these challenges and turn them into the opportunities that they are
because when properly focused and aligned as enfps can be unstoppable
that's the logic behind my ENFP coaching program ENFP unleashed just like when we
are in leashed we can be amazing but if we're not intentional with how we set
ourselves up there are some definite challenges and I hope you found this
video both insightful in terms of some of your challenges and inspiring to look
past the challenges and look at the opportunities those present for myself
for you and for all our other fellow enfps
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you